If I live in the United States, can I still get malaria?

Answer 1

ya,there r mosquitoes in us also.so there r chances .surroundings should be clean.

Answer 2

Malaria was eradicated from the United States in the early 1950s. However, malaria is common in many developing countries and travelers who visit these areas risk getting malaria. Returning travelers and arriving immigrants could also reintroduce the disease in the United States if they are infected with malaria when they return. The mosquito that transmits malaria, Anopheles, is found throughout much of the United States. If local mosquitoes bite an infected person, those mosquitoes can, in turn, infect local residents (introduced malaria).

Answer 3

Cited from the CDC website:

Where does malaria occur?
Malaria typically is found in warmer regions of the world -- in tropical and subtropical countries. Higher temperatures allow the Anopheles mosquito to thrive. Malaria parasites, which grow and develop inside the mosquito, need warmth to complete their growth before they are mature enough to be transmitted to humans.

Malaria occurs in over 100 countries and territories. More than 40% of the world’s population is at risk. Large areas of Central and South America, Hispaniola (the Caribbean island that is divided between Haiti and the Dominican Republic), Africa, the Indian subcontinent, Southeast Asia, the Middle East, and Oceania are considered malaria-risk areas.

*Yet malaria does not occur in all warm climates. For example, economic development and public health efforts have eliminated malaria from the southern United States, southern Europe, Taiwan, Singapore, and all of the Caribbean islands (except Hispaniola). Some Pacific islands have no malaria because Anopheles mosquitoes are not found there. *

Why is malaria so common in Africa?
In Africa south of the Sahara, the principal malaria mosquito, Anopheles gambiae, transmits malaria very efficiently. The type of malaria parasite most often found, Plasmodium falciparum, causes severe, potentially fatal disease. Lack of resources and political instability can prevent the building of solid malaria control programs. In addition, malaria parasites are increasingly resistant to antimalarial drugs, presenting one more barrier to malaria control in that continent.

Answer 4

We were under the impression that it was eradicated but, it is not.

Reason is wold travel and the way it is transmitted. Here is a copy of my article on the malaria.
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An article on Malaria
By
Minootoo.

You Need a malaria infected or had infection creacher and a female mosquitoes (female need blood meal for reproduction).

Then if mosquitoes bite the person (animal or bird) who had malaria, that creacher will make mosquito contaminated, it will carry the malaria and transfer it to any creacher on subsequent bits.

Qualex and Anopheles mosquitoes are the major suspects.

Answer 5

If you live in Florida, yes. It used to be eradicated there, but it is back.
In most other areas of the US, it is rare/impossible to get.

Answer 6

no